This era was really quick thanks to a few exp bonus weekends back to back. The U.S.S. Astera III ended up being something that resembles a starship crossed between the Constellation and Stargazer classes.
I honestly didn’t like this ship all that much aside from the bridge officer positions. It did serve me well before I was high enough rank to reach the next class of starships though. Once the U.S.S. Astera III was christened and all fitted up with parts from the U.S.S. Astera II (consoles, weapons, and such that were meaningful to carry over), we were off to complete the Romulus Missions.
This is where I did the Coliseum Mission which was a lot of fun! The vast majority of it was a ground mission, but it was very enjoyable and did even have the song from Star Trek: ToS that Kirk and Spock fought to! It started out as a routine mission to try and find a mission Reman ship, only to stumble upon a space station (satellite?) that immediately zaps us upon scanning it!
It doesn’t outright blow us up, but we have to investigate it to figure out why it was holding us. This part had no combat, but it was a ground section, and was a big puzzle. The puzzle itself wasn’t too hard, but it was really neat to have this little section and it did make me think about how to solve it. Aftrewards though, was the whole coliseum section after my transport back to the ship was intercepted by someone.
The Coliseum section was fun & fair for the most part, which ended up leading into the finale section. This section was also a ground mission about getting far enough away to call for help. It was some stealth, collecting items, and fighting, which all and all did take a bit of time to complete, but once it was done, I was back on my ship all safe and sound ready for more space adventuring!
I headed back to Earth Spacedock as around this point, I was high enough rank for the next starship, and that’s when this started to get a smidgen more difficult… I took a breather, got a nice lovely dressy outfit together and checked out some more Earth Spacedock before heading out into the next series of Episodes.